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The ANCHOR An Anchor 01 the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 7, 1972 PItICE Vol. 16, No. 36 漏 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per y_r 1~
Fr. William O'Neill Joins U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of .Fall River, has, announced that Rev. William F; O'Neill, assistant at St. Mary'~. Church, North Attleboro, has been released from parochial duties to enter the United States Army Chaplain Corps. Father O'Neill, son of Mrs. Alice and the late Charles O'Neill, was born August 27, 1941, in Greenwich, Conn., and his mother now resides at 15 Elizabeth Lane, Riverside, Conn. He attended St. Catherine's School and St. Mary's High School in Riverside, and took his classical studies in S1. Thomas Seminary in Hartford. He studied philosophy and theology in St. John's Seminary in Brighton and was ordained to the priesthood for the Fall River Diocese in St. Mary's Cathedral on May 20, REV. WILLIAM F. O'NEILL 1967, by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, former Bishop of Fall While in Fall River, Father River. O'Neill also served as assistant Father O'Neill on ordination director of the Fall River Area was assigned to St. Joseph's Catholic Youth Asociation, and Church, Fall River, and served as . member of the Fall River Crime Chaplain to the Second District Commission and of the Mayor's Court of Bristol County where Task Force on Drugs. he took particular interest in Father O'Neill was transferred juvenile sessions, counselling to St. Mary's Church in Nprth youngsters in trouble and con- Attleboro in September of 1970 ferring with probation officers. and in addition to parish duties He had obtained background for has served as chaplain to the the work from ,four years of Catholic Nurses Guild of the study of the adolescent and two Greater Attleboro Area. years' work under Judge Francis Father O'Neill has received a Poitrast of the Boston Juvenile commission as Captain in the Court, the only such court in Army Chaplain Corps and will the Commonwealth that sits report on September 11 to Fort daily for juvenile offenders. Polk, Louisiana.
WASHINGTON (NC) - While Catholic educators admit there are still tough days ahead for their schools, most of them aren't peddling gloom. They are looking at a .broader horizon these days. As the 1972-73 school year opened across the country, generally enrollments were down in both the Catholic elementary and high schools and there were fewer schools for the pupils to attend. In most cases, enrollment had been expected to decline, and schools to close, but despite these reports, some educators were talking about programs, consolidations and community projects. "If I were to look at declining enrollment and closing of schools, I don't suppose there would be too much to be optimistic about,'" said Father Emmet Harrington, director of education in the- Portland, Ore., archdiocese. "But I can still see many good things happening," he told NC News Service. "I can see programs that didn't exist before. Programs in some of our inner city schools are much better,. mor~ meaningful. There is heavier involvement in local communities." These programs and new attitudes are at least partly due to the crisis in the schools, says Father Harrington. "I think peopie began to look at declining enrollments and asked themselves 'why should someone go to a Catholic school.'" Parents and others interested in the plight of Catholic schools
are no longer centering attention on negative aspects and instead have taken a new lease on life for Catholic schools, Father Harrington said. Father Thomas Frain, superintendent of schools in the Trenton, N. J. archdiocese, says that
it has become commonplace to talk about the cr,isis in Catholic schools. But not withstanding the crisis situation, says Father Frain, "Catholic schools tod'ay are, in many important respects, stro:1Zer than they ever have been before." "It takes little or no effort to paint a picture of unrelieved gloom or doom,." wrote Father Frain in The Monitor, the Trenton diocesan newspaper. "Too VA'J1ICAN CITY (NC)-Pope many people are busy doing just Paul V路I, often described as "the that. It's not easy to shake the' Pilgrim Pope," takes off again 'crisis' syndrome in Catholic eduon another Eucharistic pilgrdm- cation," he wrote. But there lis evidence that age Sept. 16 .wlth a one-day visit to Venice and Udine for the Catholic schools do have a fu17th Italian Eucharistic Con- ture, and even a bright" one, said Father Frain. One reason for gress. The one-day flight north with being farsighted, Father Frain a return to Rome that evening said, is that Catholic schools are was announced at the Vatican . getting more and better quaI.iSept. 1. The Vatican press office fied teachers ljnd more meaningsaid the Pope was making the ful programs. "Our schools are more and trip "to join in the homage which more moving into the mainstream the Italian people are giving collectively to Jesus in the Eu- of American education, stresscharist" during the national con- ing their civi.c responsibilities gress, which opens at Udine and opportunities. We are taking a fresh look at the role qf our Sept. 17. schools and evolving ways to According to the Vatic~n, Pope Paul will leave Rome early Satur- maximize their service to the day morning, Sept. 16, for the Church and the community," Father Frain said. shor~ flight to the airport at Father William Jones, school Venice. His first stop will be at superintendent for the Denver the Basilica of St. Mark's where he will venerate the remains of archdiocese, also believes in a St. Mark, the Evangelist, whkh positive outlook and In stressing are preserved under the altar of new approaches in education. "We ought to get off this the church. brick-and-mortar syndrome reIn the afternoon he will continue to Udine where he will garding successes and failures," celebrate Mass at the Eucharistic he said, referring to the preoccuCongress there and then return pation some have over the c1osTUrn to Page Six directly to Rome.
Papal Trip To Venice
Clergy Changes Affect .Eight
Most :Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese announced today the appointment of one admin,istrator pro tern and the transfers of seven assistant pastors. The effective date of these assignments will be Wednesday, October 4. Rev. Antonino C. Tavares, assistant at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton, to Santo Christo Church, Fall River, as administrator pro tern. Rev. George F. Almeida, assistant at Our Lady of the Angels, FaII River to Our Lady of Mt: Carmel, New Bedford, as assistant. Rev. Henry S. Arruda, assisbe released by the Vatican, for tant at St. John of God, Somerset to Immaculate Conception . an Italian liturgy group. According to the German Church, New Bedford, as assispriest, the appropriate time for tant. Rev. Edward E. Correia, assisthe administration of the sacrament is when a person is ill, but tant at Our Lady of Victory, Cennot necessarily' in danger of terville to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, New Bedford, as assistant. death. "This is a return to the origiRev. Arthur T. DeMello, assis" nal idea of the anointing of the tant at Our Lady of Health, Fall sick as found in the letter of St. River to St. John of God SomerJames the Apostle," he said. set, as assistant. Rev. Joseph M. Ferreira, assisThe faithful are to be instructed that the sacrament can tant at St. 'Anthony of Padua, bring 路benefits to the body .and Fall River to Our Lady of -the the soul, Msgr. Fischer said, so Angels, Fall River as assistant. Rev. Gilbert J. Simoes, assisthat the sacrament "will be freed tant at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, of terror and fear." Turn to Page Two New Bedford to Santo Christo,
Liturgy Scholar Comments On Anointing of the Sick VATICAN CITY (NC) - The new rite for .the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick - often called the "last rites"--will emphasize the positive value of the grace of God and avoid any notion of terror or fear, which sometimes accompanied "Extreme Unction," as the sacrament was formerly known. This is the opinion of Msgr. Balthasar Fischer of Trier, Germany, a member 'of the commission to reform the 'sacrament for the Vatican's Congregation for. Divine Worship. As reported by Vatican Raddo, Msgr. Fischer outlined the highlights of the new rite, soon to
FATHER TAVARES Fa-II River, as assistant. Rev. Jorge deJ. Souza, assistant at Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River to St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River, as assistant. Father Tavares, the son of the late Antonio C. and Justina Simao, was born on April 27, 1916 in Feteiras, St. Michael, Azores. Following his classical and
philosophical courses at the Seminary of Angra, he studied theology at the Gregorian University, Rome where he was or4ained on April 24, 1943 by the Most Rev. Lui~i Traglia. In 1944 Father Tavares was awarded an STL degree and in 1945 received a JCB degree. Both degrees were awarded by the Gregorian University. From 1945 to 1960, the new administrator pro tern of the Santo Christo parish, Fall River taught at the Seminary of Angra, Azores. In addition to his teaching assignment, he served as moderator of Women Catholic Action and the Catholic Youth Action for Boys. Father T~var<)s also served as a member pf the Diocesan Committee for Sacred Art and Music from 19;>3 to 1960. In 1956, he becaJIle a Canon of the Cathedral of Jesus the Savior. In Oct. 1963 he was assigned to Santo Christo Parish as an assistant and remained in that assignment until June of 1964. Father Tavares then served as an administrator pro tern at St. Elizabeth's Fall River until Feb. 1965 when he was transferred to his present assignment at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton. Turn to Page Two